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lernlng Star and Catholic. Messenger.
VtEW -,RLAN. aSUNDAY. MAY 10. 174.
The horse, as if he understood the long and
heavy strain that "'as to be put upon his
eeoorrees, seerned to exercise a sort of economy,
and, without tbounding into the full fury of
his speed, sat tiled down into a long and steady
stride which soon carried him alreast of the
legionasries. I'anlirs her drew reins, all said:
Y" You ean tether t:he hot Rse c hreanihuti,, ase
] inl Ithie r n ,to gri te. Tcet ca ie otil :i t a
Fgr.d 1 tue,my illy ll, u ; t1 erew Lss tw. le:reners
behil d. I iie llin. a i n pl , rIlip, to hI nl -
helpl back. Ihrlt :it <ti ) :.., ; ipl' ft the:
Qna.tir for . -I r , .,ri;g,1 ali i ,i -,!- nce,i.
and onil ty i-ttrsfr.i t. i, I " .,I i vi t ; I oU
up."
Anid . lie r t , f .i c.,i'. :. :an .e.y cnsit, r, v .ith
the dark ;aters n f " 'hit- i ll t - u o- n i 11 l tItt
bald. Corto nii tc%-is t~ia.letI'ably Ito the left oci
thea tra;iglt lira. te l (crow ties; b:t, taking
this direction, he can!culatetd upont striking the
Apaiullie to lin, L.i r, tihcre was ani easy pass,
familiar to hilm nice early boyhood from the
military lectures of hLi father, who used to
point out to the child upon a diagram the
exact spot, before l-'iesole and near Piutoia,
where Hannibal had led Lis army across those
mountains. lie therefore held on, within
Etruria, passed through Florence, where but
few persons were yet out of bed; left Fiesole
on his right, and reacherd Pistoia a little after
noon. lie had spared his charger ; and he
performed the eighty miles from a point some
what below Lake Thrasyrme'e in about seven
bouts. Hler! he halted to give both himself
and his beast refreshments and sonime two hours
of rest. le the n paaasd the mouintains, and
rode off to the north east, by Cluterva and
]Bologra, along tl.e load to IFerrara.
('iAIIlElt IV.
No soontr was thie 1ptitectin _of her son
Paulu's pisetli ce rilmornved than the Lady
Aglaisn tid t,nmin, d to avail hLeself of the cor
dial holtlilality and opl.ortnne retreat which
had been profiered to her and to Agatha by
their aged kinsman,. lMarcus Lepidtus A:milius,
who ers now living in such systematic ob
sacoily, although hii energy had once stridden
abreast of gigantic interpils ies, and had shared
with two livals o.ly, the dominioin of the
worldl.
Aglais, with the aidiof Crispus and Crispina,
took her plans to escape notice, and to leave
no trace of her destination when she should
have departed from the intl. Yet, in spite of
the astateness of the Greek lady and the pru
dence of her allies, events proved that both an
enemy and a friend respectively had been
playing a far deeper game against her and in
defence of her.
The distinguished soldier and still extant
author, who, au the reader will remember,
secured the wanderers a reception in Crispus's
inn the night of their arrival, bad once after
ward called upoi them. During that visit
Aglais could not fail to lie struck by sonmething
unusually atlidett (for so self possessed and
courtly a persion a Velleitns l'atereolus) in the
toneof his inquiries after Agatha's health and
spi ite.
Now, the eveitgil Lt tIfie the inlter:deld de
parture of the, ladice I, Marcus's castle, Cris
pina cltered their sittinig.roomn, antd brought a
regnest from thlie military tribuno in .umestion
that they spul-I fantr hitm with a siort inter.
view. CIi-p!na asu ofrd', 1ji to Chow LiMn the
way it ilitlr auti11111 nt.s; alld ill a few Iniln
utes lie en, titl, holding his military casque in
--his left Iand, at.tl---inwing low. The door
beirg closed, Velleint, ha, ing taken a seat, ait
a few el, trtollls iunjuiriiit of the Inri:l sort
having beetn inter'huugedl, he said :
"' io ion woullhl leavc i usl to- orrow fI"
They ere vey-nt-ei , Hai t prised. It e-nil,-d, i
and enti.ur d .t
" Y.u hate, g-n-d i i,,., t' i-anigc 3ittr t.ie
denrce: ami it 3lo, i,,-:I l i :. it-h tl e ex triuiu- I
Vin's ca tle at lt.,,it- ( tit .],, c;thout the f
positii crtainty exiling ilhit oil had taken
refuge It,, t I, ti. phl, , Ias hidine, resources I
which r ,,e.,I, I til - f".ctt.,e any ditect
searlh aft a nt . ,n I A i,, daughtber.
Once, dui ing th je.ii i : . tr b.rother in- t
law, larriu- I piil. - • . I ai lul .I i,-i Iit- '
suit i1 O th 0-a . ill :. I , ' It , ! t
w orl " : k t'l "l. a l !,:I" . :", : . a ant l l t l- t
picci of -:rhi: I - -. i .n -, ' ',.
buit ., i t t!, t .lit~ I. t
neti dtt  i ' u ' - 1
del0td of .. ' - ,, -,
a ni i :1 li
go i
a'hil- I, 0 - - - - . .
shoe '.; : ,, , ,... , f ,rso iLI . on
for t .1..1 ,, .. , , 1 .. 1u
to Agathi,.
After 1",cw , a ,, : u
fill nme with :1 ,, .-;.-.1
quaioted wititi .ii- • "- ', :,c -1,," - ,,
home shelter tst 1 t.. t -, .-i. Lu- -
" You canot," li-plw.1. 1 e l ,t.rt ili s'.\I,? ,
stris tuke the only j a. 1 , - c-s.in , it r .ni
forced to alarmt y.ou. I .-i ic- is- f , itr. , h,
and, bInlieve itie, to haraic not a httle, Ior ur
asfety. Y'lu wcould inot hale\C arrivid at Mlionte
Ctreello at :I11, had I left y"' I to cx.ciiute to :r
Plane. ou O'O i1 I w ihave I-ien w-ayl:id." !
"~V31is!' si- .i Ii' ~. , elite ecithl tIerror"
e' Alas " rout Pt, i li. - it " will not - . titt
faryou ti stay i i i , i o <!s31 longer-. I
have co:le to ci i t . t,. o:,ey p:.i,
which i hve t n ' " 1 it
mot reject it! '
eould onlyg gaz i- - -i-ii- i, i lt r
visitor. Thejgr--t] . ' - • :
ecosumnlalto ,uitui - ,
Immccdia!ely i :lni.. - ;
duced tihed ,si-cd ilt ,t, -
dres the htI l I tsl of i L tl;",,:' : ,i , , ; .
ter with an irrti- t.! Ib Ind o ;,,t i ., i -, ~h . ,,f' 1
-watitnie and ev,,n tsL'-utorr tied -'
whom they regard-d ac their cc - tresent -
ohampion amrid cag're 5i.i-crcr t,! !,, i, ,* :
.emiec, ard undedtI.:il i(r:, . it.
mE3
Ilnstlnotively the two poor women rose to
gether, and, approaching Vellelus, sat down
near him.
d "My time," said he, with a scarcely audible
is sigh, " runs fast away. Listen to such a letter
, as your kinsman at Circello might write to
of you." And he drew forth front a fold in his
ly tunic the draft of a letter, and read as follows:
Il "hI. Lep. E.rntlis to his sister Aglais, greet
I: ilg: I r1,joice that os.l see the force of my
a reas-ining, anid that y.n a ill adopt the advice
Sti' ellit y d to oiL1 ill Il." lust corintlliia i c;lti.,I.
ri, ThIe e1-t -l uh I l.;-at l.irtd to take you to
,. t ie*u i. l it i ,n t r a ,:qi .1 l -it y ,
i' ltier I!.t t,,a- ,t inear Caieita in bt ,, I
, 1 .tt,,t it. I a il), on the seventh i ..,, |il,
I , tLi., aii d yl .u a pltrsOll who baull c,:llCt eiou
I ]'u otii ti C.ai,:io, :"ld take you to the ship
ii '. a small boat, when all h.all hli ready to
t receive you on ,oard. Fazewtll."
it Having read this, Patercul s pai:ed. The
g ladies remained silent ill sheer asto;nishment.
e " But," said Aglais, at last, " there is no time
s, left, if we are not safe here, to get my kius"
e man to write this letter."
o " lie need not write any letter," said Pater
.e culus. " You observe in what I have just read
i, an allusion to a supposed previous letter,
io which, nevertheless, he has not written. If
a you will merely consent to be guided by me, I
it will cause such a letter as the one of which
e you have now heard the drafttobe intercepted
r on the way fromt the farmer-triumvir to you.
e It will straightway be laid before a certain
personage. That personage will see, or imag
I ine he sees, that the triumvir is not only re
If l]ctant to receive you, but has succeeded in
s persuading you to change, for an early flight
d to Spain, your plan of a retreat or refuge in
d his castle. The personage to whom the letter
will be carried will moreover notice that your
change of measurce has been produced by a
n former letter of Lepidus'a not intercepted, and
y therefore that the pIresent seizure of cormmuni
r- cations has been made too late to prevent the
iI relinquishmlent of your original design. lie
y will, therefore, neither lay any ambush foryou
, on the way to Circello, nor su.ipect that you
- have gone thither. If at the samie time you
n disappear hence, he will await you at Caietm,
d watching the coast and the vessel, while you
e will be safe in the triumvir's castle."
" But the person of whom you speak will
fi, nd that there is no vessel hovering on the
e1 coast," replied the lady, " and will again ques
d tion whither we have gone."
If "Pardon me for contradicting you," said
i- Velleine. "Ilo will find a vesel has been hov
n ering on the coast, and, after receiving a skiff
u and its passengers on board (tiro women and
, one oarsman), that the vessel has vanished
seaward. I have myself hired the vessel, dis
t tribated the parts, rehearsed the performors,
and arranged all the scenes of the little com
a edy. But you must not go to-morrow, as you
s had intended, for on the way you would be
t seized. Give me to morrow to have the letter
intercepted, give me the next day to combine
meats for your journey. To-night, meanwhile,
,. Crispus, and none other, must carry your lug
d gage himself, parcel by parcel, into a thicket
in the wood which skirts the western or sea
wa. rd road. On the night of the day after to
t. morrow, you must leave the inn on foot, after
a people have retired to bed, and you must walk
for a mile or more to the large sycamnore tree
near the plire where Cicero was murdered I
Crispina a ill go with you to the spotthrough
StL.e garden, and then through the fields. Un
r der the tree you will find a biga with twoswift
r horses and a trusty driver; on the roof of the
I his, your luggage shall have been already
t strapped.
It wonul he needless to describe the grati
tude of the motherand daughter. The former
alluded deprecatingly to the expense which
mIust have been incurred, especially in hiring
such a vessel as would appear qualified to tra
verse the sea; but Paterculus checked all
further reference to that matter with a per
emptory gesture, and rising, added, in the
sanle low voice in which the conversation had
all along been carried on :
" I have alluded to the hiding resources of
the ('irrello Castle. I will not describe the
wonderful contrivances of the architect. lIe
wan .iiir cm),ntryman-an Athenian even, I
think.
" Welil, buL," said Aglais ; "if you know so
un , h ,of thl;cs lurking places, others doubtless
l.nolW ,het too"
"Not so," ansvwered V'elleius witll a smile.
I amn pielpating the history of theso times. I
I .l hd "Iii,l ull. ', ltllt Iiuclh iwhich every (one else
i -miit s t'rmn his minid, if remarked ait all.
l I.ere Is, uue lpioint veryv important to 30o 1:
I ;ll", tit.o1 coulld have evaded any ambush
l. td ft r youi tonarrow, and have reached Cir
cell', sit so teiached it that it would remain
I ('lti tii you had taken rt'eflge there, then you
,w uld nti. be sate, Lbecause, although physi
caHll a iti mat irally all stnrch of the pllcefor
Ini Iigi iives \oiult hte vain,ar moral pressure upou
it tetus Ilipiduis might, I apprehend, compel
' Ithi suirrtrder itof his refugees by his own act."
"I ulndeltalnd," said Aglais, and simultane
Siouly Agutha exclainied "Oh!'
" FAir dIaslnan," said Velleiins, " he is not like
his nephew, your brother, your dauntless Pan
r ' lhl." concludedl the handsome tribnne,
" with tU hicas:,rsa taken .oun can banish
a luieiy, and set 3ourselves at rest. Think
1- t, c- the: Iuhl au-ser a word, he had
I .liit.t ,i -s-r
It was a ,st:my night in early winter, a few
weeks afleratrd, that Miaueis .uilis Lepi- I
due Istill i- Ctlnlli t tiu styledl the triimvir
where lint ~ holly ft'rglltel) had returnedel a
-s ith A;Iais and Agntha to his favorite sittiag
I,,,nn it the thiid story, sftcer shoing the
s ": dIsi of his soiurary castle to the widow oit I
hsi aihke hirither and to herehild. It wouldv t
t tliiri a booko to isti- to tdescribe tLis nirs- p
S:i is m tst,-, ,: -- i of architect ural inenuiiy, I
, ,',,t ,i hIo,,k io ldepict the almost La'tern a
l, iity aith sHlich it had been furnished, ]
wli II its 1~r r-nietor determnined to exchange u
thier dsangers of rohltcale ambition in a very eI
o- dangerous age for the comforts of opulent ob
rn eority.
"Are you tired f" asked the old man.
le The ladies, both flushed with exercise, de
er clared that their excursion had been delightful,
to the surprises of it astounding, and, if more
is was to be seen, they were ready and eager to
s: see more.
"More!'" said the triumvir, smiling. "If
wy e spent every night for a month in sirmilar
ce exloratins, you would still be liable to lose
II. your.slve withou' .:reat caution."
t '11. room w.'a lighted by eight lamps, andi :
h ra,.' r dtlclit-d a cozforrtal,lo walrmth.
"Agatha," said [i ai maon, i throwiuug himns.lf
Inpi n cea coIch, ' .I : rI oIak nt0 accomdp:y
+ yourslt iup,'. the six sltring,.l lir in a G ei.ut
p sg, pt:,y go to the cutt.ains against the svct.
o erln al!, dlasw thleul bac!i, open the lattice
Iehi, d, and tell me how the eight looks npoui
e the 'T rrhenian Sea."
t. " It looks stormy over the sea, uncle, and
e the waves are beating upon the rocks far
s' down; the foam shines very white under faint
stars the wind is roaring among your towers;
r- and a world of waters thunders below at the
d foundations of the castle, which trem-"
r, The voice of the young girl ceased, and
f Aglais, who stood warming her hands near the
I brazier, looked round and saw her nowhere.
h" Why, brother," she cried, in utter bewil
I derment, " where is--chere is Agatha I"
The triumvir arose, and approaching his sis
n ter-in-law, so as to stand between her and the
window, pointed in the opposite direction sig
n uificantly.
° She turned, and endeavored to discover to
t what he wished to draw her attention, and
u while still gazing heard Agatha say, as if con
r cluding her sentence :
"And do you not feel the floors vibrate to
a the shock of the unseen armies of the air f"
" Where have you been, Agatha 1'
" Iere, gazing at the wondrous tempest,"
U said she, closing the horn shutter of the lat
tice, drawing the curtain, and coming back
toward the tireliace, with her beautiful oun.
u tenance one glow of poetry.
u After the song which Lepidus had requested,
supper was brought. Some tale of the civil
a wars and his adventurous youth was recalled
accidentally to mind by Lepidus, and when
he had liuislied it he begged Agatha once more
to go to the windlow and inform them again
how the night looked over the sea.
She rose, ran to the curtains, and, drawing
d them aside, uttered an exclamation, which
drew her mother to the place.
The sea was gone, and the woods of Latiom
waved warmly and dimly in the gale under the
uncertain stars. The triumvir joined them. I
"As you have so obligingly accompanied your
self, my child," said he, upon the lyre, come I
now, you and your mother, and accompany 4
me."
While he spoke, the lights, the brazier, and
the whole apartment disappeared behind them.
A monstrous shutter, running in grooves from I
ceiling to floor, had silently slipped along the
space. The whole of that story of the house
seemed to have pivoted on a turu-table. They
were now in a little gallery, with no light save
what entered by the lattice; and, looking out of
tlis, they thought the landscape appeared to
glide away to the left, and the roaring sea to
creep round under them from the right. When
thlity..ere just over its mid-thunders they de
scended swiftly, till the spr.:v ,lew into their r
faces. Then the triumnvir , , the la:tr ice, :anl
at theaame instant a fl.,d : li,:..t fll fa,,
behind. Turning round, t.,.y s. , . ":.' ce.
tre of a wide-llagged passa;u .
servant, with a torch in . : ,"
low and inviting the ladies , > ,.
the sitting-rooit. Marcus Lepidus gave ; .
to the ladies oa either hand, and for te :
utes, or even smore, they followed th, ..,".!
domestic up flights of stairs, round spaci,..s,
halls, afid along passages and colonnades,
until the man stopped at a lofty door in the
third story. Lepidus, opening the door, bowed
his guests back into the room which they had
quitted in so unexpected and unexplained a
manner. A handsome, effeminete-looking
youth, with traces of dissipation in his face,
whom they had never seen before, sprang from
Lepidus's favot its couch, anid was presented
in a constrained and even cui t nmanner to the
ladies by the triumvir-who had slightly start
ed on perceiving him--as his grandson Marcus.
" Why, I did nut expect you for six months
vet," said the I riumvir dry ly.
" Before exljlaising s by you e j,,y the plen
sure of ally colli.-any so soon," rttulued t:e
youth in a somue" hat languid tone, which re
minded Agatha of 'Velleius l'atercullns's grace"
fil slowness of accent, as a clever copy re
mninds one of an authentic nl.tsterpicce, or
aftected refinement of genuine elegance, "will
you be good enough to inform me of the names
of the fair ladies whom I have the unlooked
Sfor pleasure of meeting ?"
" My poor brother's widow, the Lady Aglais,
and her daughter, your second cousin Agatha,
said the triumvir.
" Ah! then," cried he, making a low obeise
ance to each of the ladies in succession, "you
are the mother, you the sister, of the heroic
youth of whose prowess I have heard all men
speak as I came through Formia, and whom I
have missed meeting because he had jist fol
IowedI Germanicus to the war in North Italy.'
" I have come back from Rhodes," resomed
the younig man, " a little souner than luhadl been
arranged; first, bceaunse--becausR-if I had
remained muchil long.r, I nii:t have becn
obliged to ho row money for my jouriey."
"Your studies, I am sure, will uakeo3ou
famous : buit your allowance." said the trinnum
vir, " was sorely niost liberal; a proconsul'a
son would not lhave wished more in my time."
"Just so, grandlfather; but you say in your J
time. The tiimes have changed; new w,,nlts
have spruug up. I caln't keep the pace. lThe I
boy Caligula and lonng Herod Agrippa, my
particular friends, were bath at Formia when t
In rrived, and I pledge you my word I was a
ashamed to let them even know my presence;
they would have laughed at me. No horaers, c
no money-I could not have joined them. 1I
akulked In an ion; and while the gayeties a
.................... . - . .
of a court, which is my natural sphere, were
circling around me, was obliged to amuse my
self by listening to some low seafaring man,
in a state of partial intoxisation, who was
making people laugh by telling them that he
had gained as much money for dressing up
two boys in women's slothes, and rowing them
in a skiff to his ship, off the coast at Cai.t.e,
as if he had performed his intended voyage to
Spain and back. When they asked for an ex
I lunation, he dec!ar ed that, if theyc .11 1.e..;,
a se-cret, so coittl he; but aIlth.iI g I lt,
w ., in the p'i, ' t, Naple, t!:at it w.i, i 1".
Hiui to be iktll' a COG:', a ile coo!t Io L- t"
.,itit to llp.: a. s t lMuc lh nii) e oil a I:tU , o i it
11 in, as l i le snol.i cd le t ire., a ri .
Agatha and A..-LIs excha:ýgi g.l::c, . ";. T
triuimvir was afraid to look tonatd the;.,. 1.'
rci maked that the seafatiurg churl wan doubt.
less a swindler, pretending to be tipsy n:ti to
have funds in order to lure soime, idler into
playing with him, and thus to win his money.
"I dare say," drawled the youth. "I want
money, too, grandfather; and I know you will
supply me sufliciently."
" Well, well," replied the triumvir, "you
must be tired. Let me order you somesrupper,
and recommend you to go at once to bed. To
morrow we will speak of business."
Asking his grandson to follow him, he left
the room, and shortly afterward returned
alone.
He was in low spirits. He cautioned the
ladies to say nothing about the contrivances
for concealment which existed in the castle,
and of which the youth had no real knowledge,
but merely a mysterious memory from childrsh
days, confounding the facts with notions of
necromancy and enchantment. lie added that
it would be well for all purposes if Marcus
should at once depart, and that Ie wonld ac
cordingly somewhat strain his own plans in (
regard to the pecnniary dematnds of theyout:h.
Notwithstanding the liberal supply of monry 1
which this declaration intimated, young Mar- I
cus suddenly changed his mind, aind for somie
days was not apparently in a hurry to tear
himself entirely away from that bewitching
abode. lie went, indeed, to Forniite, but soon
returned with airs of importance, and, indeed,
of inquisitiveness, which awakened in the c
hearts of the sojourners there inexpressible r
anxiety and an undefined alarm. Ie passed
from marks of admiralion for Agatha, poig
nantly displeasing to her, to studiously care
less questions, which sounded like the cu- i
tinuations of some conference which he must a
have held with mighty personages in a dan- a
gerous sphere. And it was then that he began t
regularly to go in the afternoons to Formicm
(where he slept), and to return for an boar or t
two nearly every forenoon to the castle of en- "
chantments. 14
One day, toward noon, the triumvir was just C
coming home after a little fishing excursion, a
and, stepping from his boat upon ajetty which t
he had built to run out of the very court-yard T
of the mansion to an iron gat3 in the lofty a
sea-wall, he was about to cross the yard, a
separated from the garden by a paling, and so t
to enter the house at the usual door on the s
sea side, when, over the pales, he saw the e
ladies sitting in an ivy-thatched arbor at the
end of one of the garden-walks. Passing A
through a little wicket shutter in the paling,
he sauntered toward them. As lie allppri.thedl
he rperceived that Agatha was i I tI ni. ,n
sulling, wbile her motlt- . .w 1 ,,, .i fr o :
ed upon heur owi i- ,,., it - ,i i . t ut,
1,..(.. :. i . "I .." ," "- ·' . tt ., . l ·
," ....." . .,._' .,.-, , .. , t . i tf, e t .-. .1 ,,Ii teUv e
:,....l, i ' ,th-,', i . ... ::il ., , i h t, - ui a
In - ., t-lssly, etraced his c', p s. liaiig
entered the house, changed his fishing cos
tame, and refreshed himself, he rested awhile 1
in deep reflection. In less than an hour, lie
sent a servant to order Melena, the Greek slave
of Aglais, to announce to her mistress and to
Agatha that he had returned, and would be 1
glad to have their company at hi; repalt in
their favorite sitting-loern on the third atory
TLey carrme, and the three sit downt together 1
to a delicious little banquet, at which the tri-
n.nvir compelled both Aglais and Agatha to
drink one cyathns more than thiy uin:tllty
would drink of a wine the fame of w!.;.hIb hlone
has reached us across all tho,. n cni ::: . ':,
str Yahts C.ou retired.
" Why are you so rail i'' den a-.dred thu tri
unrnvir cheerily.
" I wish," said Agatha, "that we :, ,h! h,,-,r,
I do not say from, but even of, my 1,:uothlr
Piaulus,"
" You will see him here b.efor, long, h:,iltlyi
able to bear up under the Pelion-uponiOssa
of his honors," said the old man.
" Ah ' groaned the young girl, while t.ec
Laldy Aglais perceptibly suppressed a siglh.
There was a pause.
"lIas my grardson lten here to-day i' askeld
Lelidsne.
"lIe had not ridden or" an hour," replied
Aglais, " when Mlelina said you were waiting
for us. I feel that our presence must he mnrost
eorbarrassing to yon, dear brother; and it is
not for us to increase willingly the troubles
which we entail Olpon you. But I dread your
grrndson llarels. lie left us to-li. v ithn a
threat."
"A threat '!"
" Yin; .U tnitot have inoticecd-r-,ist have
observed, tlhatt-lthat he has assucmed a manner
which-"
She hesitated.
'" I haver observed that he admires hiscon-iu
yondler, and that Agstha is far from e:rncour
aging his attentions," said Lopidos gravely.
After a panse, he suddenly added: "Surel- tie
young wretch has better reason than I ha'e, to,
know this: and has ceased to importun:i, to
persecute with marks of his pltserene., a
dausel iho is under my protcctioiu, to say
nothing of Agatha's merits, birth aiid bicd-e
ing."
Neither of the ladies replied. Agatha be
came very red, and Aglais very pale.
"What was the threat?" inquired the tri
nmrlr.
e "He said," replied the mother, "that my
'- daughter showed as much spirit as if she was
, in Bpain, and he hoped she might display no
S abatement of it when Tiberius Caisar should
0 learn that she was yet in Italy."
P "And who," roared the aged triumvir, " is
Tiberias Casar I I have been the-the equal
of his master."
I Ili lhead drooped, and he added in a mutter,
" I have no legions now! Alas, we all helled
Ito 'i,.ti ute caplice for justicJ wheni we low
:e I tI:: Rmau Senate iutu a court."
A;, :, was iu 'terror.
"' Yai bounty," haid ,tie, " together with
tl". itauilS I II selfret,inI, l.a! o tis h io I Id the
fiar t.f ii.lit. I hlav ti tI. raintu d toseek can
Se:ai li ii in a little villa o"r ctagte neiar Roime;
iat, ua-ulniug a nolw lram,, there to await
l'Paulis's IetCu, and tho rsult of ()ionoysius's
ell',ar. iui our beLalf. The sooner we depart,
Sthlo i.a'cr."
" Let us neither run," said Lepidas, " into
snares, r.or fly, without need, from tranquility.
L If Tiberius has learnt that you are here, your
I attempt to leave me and your seizure would
be simultaneous events; if he has not learnt
1 it, your departure is not yet necessary. Buat I
will give all requisite orders, nevertheless, and
Swmake every preparation, within three hours.
Be of ge.od heart. The power of flying shall
be yours, from this very afternoon. There
T enough! What a fallen man is Lepidus!
Once, a world shook at my name; and now
my own gallant brother Paulus's widow and
I daughter imagine they are not safe under my
roof!"
Rising from the table, he threw himself on
a couch, near which some jewels were dis
played on a stand. IIe took up a little casket,
and said :
" Niece Agatha, I may never see your pretty
face again after you once leave the Castle of
Circtello; wear this for my sake."
And opening the casket, he drew from it a
twisted chain of gold, to which hung a jasper
locket encrusbted with other precious stones,
and enclosi:ng a miniature of a woman.
'Thanks," replied the girl. " If you will
yourself place it round my neck, uncle, it will
make the beautiful jewel more dear to me."
" There, my little lady," cried the old man,
complying with her request; " what an orna
ment, to be sure, you are to the trinket !"
"The trinket to me, you mean," said Agatha.
What is inside this locket T"
" You open it thus," replied Ledidus, press
ing a little Ivory knob, releasing a blade of
steel, and disclosing four golden signet-rings,
such as Romans of distinction used to wear on
the third finger of the left hand.
" The story of these rings," continued the
triumvir, placing them in a row on the table,
" is equally brief and curious. This on the
left, representing Aphrodite armed, was Julius
Ciesar's; I mean, itis precisely like his favorite
signet ring, with which he issued commands
that were obeyed from the Tigris to Britain.
The other three, going still from left to right,
are all exact copies of the three successive
signet-rings used by our actual master, Angos
tns: the last, which is a good likeness of him
self as he was thirty years ago, being his prees
ent seal of orders.
" The one next to it pre ents a portrait of
Alexander the Great. That was Aungustus's
preiont-his ,tand:l atlIectation. The first
"..s til.t Shyl'inx; see the inscrutable head
iTH.i', l:j, ilst fancy, was au instiuct. No
.ali tl.ati l tlhiet,, I can tell you. At the time
of our quarrel and reconciliation, ju-t after
I te war with Sextus Pompey in Sicily, Angus
I 's gv.Le llei, a, a iUer) token of private re
Si·i'', the duplicate of his own seal-ring. Of
S.:irsn I have never used it for public put poses.
i to do so would cost any man his head. The
ot her two were sent to me tby thie artist, as
duplicates of what he had manufactured for
Augustus, because it wa, I who had advised
his eimployuient by the P1inceps. The man
was called bliinas ; he w.is a Rhodian ; he was
always grateful to me for loy ret utn mend:lttion."
When Lepil.lus had fiuishe.d this concise
li:tle hiotory, be rei,lacal the rings in the
1.,,ket, and A,;.th:t ro, ,.l tl.ou-o n''k the
chain burilg, paliiýted, ", i;ti ta to :v nffctionatte
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